Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 13, 2024

And they work cheap, because they are true believers…. in Saint Putin.

The Supremes’ new stand; they’re for sale

Attorneys at Law or Preachers at Law. No real difference, actually, especially when the “law” is some holy writ or another. I mean, if one wants to cut & paste enough, one can make even a telephone directory say anything one might wish. The Bible makes that sort of thing super easy.

My holy scripture says that it is the true holy scripture.

For sale to any and all buyers, over and over.

I always wondered where politicians and evangelists went to get their bizarre interpretations.

Hallelujah!

trumps lawyers with the constitution, which we will pay dearly for!

Murder, rape, slavery, genocide can all be justified with that book of fables.

They’re going to be making heaps of money!

Isn’t that how it already worked WITHOUT lawyers?

This is our future.

Street preachers were the OGs in this developing theocratic madness. Now its the not so supreme courts.

I consider my relationship with GOD to be a private matter between me and her.

The same lawyers are also good at misinterpreting the Constitution and Amendments.

Politics and religions exist for the same reason, to control you with lies!

Not a funny joke, but cutting much too close to the truth. Relevant book: “Too Much Information” by Cass Sunstein where he is attempting to defend the right to be ignorant, but so far no mention of religion. Of course they hate truths that clash with their religious crap. They hate freedom and just want to obey their authoritarian preachers who promise they can obey gawd forever in the next round. Pure BS, but freedom is too much work for some folks.

Islam in a nutshell

The sun god Ra was invented by a pharaoh to slim down the priesthood and make it easier to claim his pharaohdom was sanctified by a god. (My sketchy history opinion.) Probably before him and ever since a made up deity has been an essential tool in the authoritarian kit. If a politician claims to only answer to god while receiving instructions from god they can justify doing anything. “I’m King because I got my sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake.”

“Opinions given immediately. Reasoning behind them to come later, after we make something up.”

Banish religion…no more problems on that front.

The different books of the Bible say so many different things that its easy to claim that it says what you want it to say. That’s how you have Christians like Reverend Ed Trevors and Pastor Greg Locke.

I don’t understand how the vast majority of white Christian women can support a p***y grabber, convicted rapist and indicted felon who wants to control their body but the must be into that kind of thing. Kinky.

When I boil it all down, it seems there are only two ways for someone seeking to rule over others to control behavior. Carrots and sticks, reward and punishment, salvation and eternal torment, god and guns. The Church of England was created so the King wouldn’t have to share power with the Pope. The most godless of politicians end every speech with “May God bless America”. If you’re the messenger of god, or at least able to convince the gullible you are, and control the military/police you have the “moral” authority to rule. Otherwise, it’s just one person telling others how they should live their lives.

That would assume the bible thumpers actually read the bible, which in most cases seems quite doubtful.

Ignore all the stuff about love of money and welcoming immigrants, though.

Recent example would be the lefts narrow interpretation of section 3 of the 14th. Like it was a stand alone amendment.

Where’s the Alabama flag?

They are down the street from the hog trough on the Potomac. They’ll get their turn.

Why is everyone there celebrating?

Alabama has now made it official: God exists and must be consulted when making laws. I can see some future cases when we debate WHOSE God to consult before making laws for all citizens to live under.

Now that’s going to be VERY popular!

Suddenly, it all makes sense…

Just another unconstitutional product produced by the Republican Party.

Holy crap is this ever true.

It’s easier to just rewrite the parts you don’t like

Ever notice how only one side wants to play religious games (to stay in power) while the other side really doesn’t care what you believe in as long as you try to just treat ppl respectfully?

That this true makes me angry beyond words.

They should charge extra for selling believers on Trump.

Wowza! I don’t even have words to describe how extremely accurate this is‼️

Hrmph! I can’t “LIKE” this more than once. Poohee!

Stick with the KJV.

“GOD talks directly to ME. I Am HIS messenger. You must do what I tell you to do, or you are disobeying GOD, and HE will subject you to eternal punishment!” /s

“We can do it in the form of Three Card Monte, if you like.”

Why not just go to any Federal Court in a red state to get the Bible ruling

Like I’ve said for years… it’s possible to justify anything if one picks the right scripture

Shouldn’t the umbrella be red?

This is the cleverest comic I’ve seen in an age! Way to go, Wiley.

NO! All though anything is possible. . . .

Good one, Wiley.

Dewey,Cheatham and Howe

When we get to The Book of Job, let’s shove lawyers to the head of the line

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord and line my pockets!

The “new & improved” RNC!

The Ten Commandments have become the ten suggestions.

The Bible is the world’s longest-running, most widely respected, and least reliable Rorschach Test. You can look in it and see anything you want to see, find anything you want to find, justify any pre-ordained conclusion you prefer, or validate any prejudice — because the Bible has it all: love, hate; revenge, redemption; war, peace; slavery, freedom; humility, arrogance; kindness, cruelty; and, as Mark Twain observed, “upwards of a thousand lies”!

I think I can see Alan Dershowitz in there. He twisted the Constitution to get trump off in Impeachment #1

Wiley said it very well in a cartoon some years ago: “Critical thinking makes us sleepy. It’s easier to just point fingers.”

Snake oil by any other name.

“To be honest, most of the stuff in the last 17 books is too “woke” for our usual clients."

Too close to the truth.

Read the bloody history of christianity; or even just the reign of the Tudor line in Great Britain. The reason The Constitution left religion out. The government should never be the head of the church. Unhappy with the current wife? Just change your interpretation of the bible and chop off her head.

Your personal religious views will no longer be tolerated. Infidels will be punished or imprisoned.

“The Devil can cite scripture for his purposes”. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

To paraphrase, and clean up a bit, Carlin the Great, “Religion is malarky.”

Anton Scalia; ‘God has the power of life and death and therefore governments who derive their power from god, have the right to dispense life and death too.”The declaration of Independence: ‘“ all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Religion is the kryptonite that slays the right in the same way that socialism and woke ignorance are the kryptonite that slays the left. People who believe or pretend to believe that fiction has more value than fact should always lose, and we ALL lose whenever the fictions win.

So much for the separation of church and state. Hallelujah!

I’m going through a book call “The most dangerous superstition” by Larken Rose. Quite eye-opening. and spoiler: that superstition is in both religion and government.